Improvement in ointments



UN TED STATEs PATENT OEEIcE.

OINTHIA JANE BEATTIE, OF PUEBLO, COLORADO.

IMPROVEMENT IN OINTMENTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 199,684, dated January29, 1878; application file October 27, l877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CINTHIA JANE BEATTIE, of Pueblo, in the county ofPueblo and State of Colorado, have invented a new and Improved Salve forSkin Diseases, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to that class of compounds known as salves,composed of a variety of ingredients having medicinal qualities; andconsists in a composition in the form of a salve, hereinafter described,in which the aforesaid medicinal properties are utilized, together withthe curative properties of other ingredients.

To prepare the salve, take the bark in a dry state, stew it in a littlewater until the water nearly all evaporates; then add old-bacon grease,and fry it until the bark is brittle; then strain out all the grease, towhich the other ingredients are to be added, the spirits of camphorlast, so that undue evaporation of the latter will not take place; thenstew the mixture over a fire just hot e ugh to fuse the resin for a fewminutes, stir ng a little in order that the ingredients may ite morereadily; take it off the fire and box 1 .efore it congeals.

The following is the nameand proportion of each ingredient that I havefound very satisfactory, to wit: Dried bark of sumac-root,

one ounce; old-bacon grease, one ounce; mutton-suet, one-half ounce;bees-wax, one-half ounce; res1n,one-fourth ounce; spirits of camphor,two drains; spirits of turpentine, two,

drains.

The salve improves by age, and is very effective in skin diseases, suchas fetter, ringworm, salt-rheum, sunburn, frost-bite, burns, scalds,outs, bruises, and sores in general, whether chronic or acute.

The essential ingredient or element of this compound is the extract inlard of the bark. The other ingredients and the proportions can bevaried to suit circumstances, tastes, or caprice. 7

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent-- A compound consisting of dried bark of sumac-root,one ounce; bacon-grease, one ounce;

mutton-suet, one-ha1f-ounce; bees-wax, onehalf ounce; resin, one-fourthounce; spirits of camphor, two drains; and spirits of turpentine, twodrarns, as set forth.

h OINTHIA JANE BEATTIE.

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Witnesses STELLA T. THIPPENNEY, J NO. L. BEATTIE, J. D. HENRY.

